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Dawkins: A “Perfect Hierarchy” in the Tree of Life?
The “hierarchy” that Dawkins is referring to in the video is the tree of life that evolutionary biologists can generate.
Something Borrowed, Something New? The Challenge to Darwinism from Human Orphan Genes
New research indicates we have a number of new genes — genes that are specifically human — in our genome.
Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
It is important, in evaluating these arguments, that one consider all the evidence: not just the evidence that is consistent. It seems to me that when this is done, the arguments for common descent — certainly in its universal sense — are, at best, inconclusive.
Another Bogus Claim of “Novel Function Arising Through Mutation and Selection”
If by “novel function” Dennis Venema means “loss of function,” then perhaps he is correct.
Guest Blogger James Le Fanu: The Last Days of the Façade of Knowing
The philosopher Thomas Nagel in a memorable phrase laments ‘the ludicrous overuse of evolutionary biology to explain everything about life’ — where there is nothing too sensational, extraordinary or bizarre about the living world that cannot be accounted for as having evolved to be that way over billions of years by the same known materialistic process of natural selection acting on random genetic mutation. This façade of knowing cannot last, of course, and 20 years or so hence historians and commentators will rightly wonder how science could conceivably have endorsed so simplistic a theory to explain the billion fold complexities of the living world — and for so long. The impetus for that disillusionment can only come from within science Read More ›